Prefetch file size (or length) (sometimes referred to as End of File (EOF)).

H5

0x0010

60

USTR

The name of the (original) executable as a Unicode (UTF-16 litte-endian string), up to 29 characters and terminated by an end-of-string character (U+0000). This name should correspond with the one in the prefetch file filename.

H6

0x004C

4

DWORD

The prefetch hash. This hash value should correspond with the one in the prefetch file filename.

Section C

At the end of the section there seems to be alignment padding that can contain remnant values.

Section D - Volume information (block)

Section D contains one or more subsections. The number is (most likely) determined by the DWORD at file offset 0x0070. Each subsection refers to directories on an identified volume.

In this section, all offsets are assumed to be counted from the start of the D section.

If all the executables and libraries referenced in the C section are from one single disk volume, there will be only one section in the D section. If multiple volumes are referenced by section C, section D will contain multiple sections. (A simple way to force this situation is to copy, say, NOTEPAD.EXE to a USB drive, and start it from that volume. The corresponding prefetch file will have one D header referring to, e.g. \DEVICE\HARDDISK1\DP(1)0-0+4 (the USB drive), and one to, e.g. \DEVICE\HARDDISKVOLUME1\ (where the .DLLs and other support files were found).

Volume information - version 17

The following values are version dependent. Below the structure for format version 17.